Word: star
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...than modern actors: but today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward motion and more exposition of human consciousness, less noise and more feeling. This new field has been opened by Ibsen. A star play tries to exploit a single personality and so spoils the harmony of the whole. For this reason no great writer has ever written star plays. The difference between the plays of a generation ago and of today may be seen by comparing Sardou and Ibsen. Sardon is theatrical...
...University of Pennsylvania this year started the football season with the most encouraging prospects in many years, but a series of accidents, coupled with the barring by the Faculty of the captain and star kicker, Reynolds, materially retarded the early development of the team. With a large amount of good material at hand, however, with which to fill these unexpected vacancies, a strong eleven with an excellent offense has been produced...
...yards. Hurley ran back the next kickoff 44 yards. Possibly the best run was made by Wendell, who received the opening kick-off of the second half and, aided by good interference, ran down the field for a touchdown. Lockwood played an excellent game at fullback. Star and Guild were out, but did not take part in the scrimmage. T. G. Meier 2nd, '04 played for a part of the scrimmage on the second team...
During the summer an important star was discovered at the Astronomical Observatory in examining one of the Henry Draper memorial photographs. Of the eleven stars discovered during the last 20 years this makes the eighth found at the Cambridge Observatory. The new star, being the second in that constellation, was called the Nova Aquilae...
President Eliot sails today from Liverpool, England, on the "Arabic," of the White Star Line, and expects to arrive in Boston on Saturday, April 22. President and Mrs. Eliot have been in Europe since the latter part of January, on a visit to their daughter, Mrs. Charles Eliot, who has been spending the winter in Switzerland. President Eliot has been in London during the last two weeks...